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2131.

The Genius in My Basement (2011) (theguardian.com)

42 points by Bootvis on Dec 25, 2019 | 54 comments

2132.

Accidentally Overwriting Another Local Variable in C and C++ (blog.petrzemek.net)

42 points by ingve on Dec 5, 2019 | 51 comments

2133.

The Joy of Cosmic Mediocrity (nautil.us)

42 points by dnetesn on Dec 28, 2019 | 42 comments

2134.

The Problem with Letters of Recommendation (thepointmag.com)

42 points by diodorus on Dec 30, 2019 | 40 comments

2135.

Crypto Miners in Georgia Consume 10% of the Entire Nation’s Power (thedailychain.com)

42 points by grumpypoet on Dec 9, 2019 | 35 comments

2136.

The vandals destroying libraries should have the book thrown at them (theguardian.com)

42 points by Tomte on Dec 27, 2019 | 28 comments

2137.

The Startup Side Project Bubble (2013) (davidhauser.com)

42 points by amzans on Dec 14, 2019 | 27 comments

2138.

Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany (translate.googleusercontent.com)

42 points by lumannnn on Dec 7, 2019 | 21 comments

2139.

FOSS Zombies (davidalfonso.es)

42 points by pferde on Dec 7, 2019 | 17 comments

2140.

Old Man River City – A Community Dwelling Machine (solutions.synearth.net)

42 points by costcopizza on Dec 29, 2019 | 17 comments

2141.

New Virtual Reality Interface Enables “Touch” Across Long Distances (scientificamerican.com)

42 points by vinnyglennon on Dec 1, 2019 | 12 comments

2142.

Illegal streams, decrypting m3u8's, building a better stream experience (2018) (blog.jonlu.ca)

42 points by colinprince on Dec 2, 2019 | 12 comments

2143.

Adaptive Loading – Improving web performance on low-end devices (addyosmani.com)

42 points by feross on Dec 29, 2019 | 12 comments

2144.

Fu-Go Balloon Bomb (en.wikipedia.org)

42 points by Thevet on Dec 8, 2019 | 10 comments

2145.

New Data Shows Income of Top 1% Has Grown 100x Faster Than Bottom 50% Since 1970 (commondreams.org)

42 points by wajdiben on Dec 9, 2019 | 9 comments

2146.

Chinese criminal gangs spreading swine fever to force farmers to sell pigs (scmp.com)

42 points by prostoalex on Dec 27, 2019 | 7 comments

2147.

Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World (lrb.co.uk)

42 points by hoffmanesque on Dec 13, 2019 | 5 comments

2148.

CVE-2019-14899 - Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections (seclists.org)

42 points by tinix on Dec 5, 2019 | 4 comments

2149.

Graal and Truffle (2016) (blog.plan99.net)

42 points by tosh on Dec 15, 2019 | 4 comments

2150.

The Evolution of Trust (2017) (ncase.me)

42 points by yaa_minu on Dec 6, 2019 | 3 comments

2151.

Certbot 1.0 Is Released (eff.org)

42 points by afshinmeh on Dec 5, 2019 | 0 comments

2152.

The Cult of Hideo Kojima (eurogamer.net)

41 points by danso on Dec 9, 2019 | 65 comments

2153.

A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen from Above (nytimes.com)

41 points by jbegley on Dec 30, 2019 | 44 comments

2154.

California, and the US, shouldn’t be afraid of density and upzoning (curbed.com)

41 points by oftenwrong on Dec 9, 2019 | 37 comments

2155.

U.S. Tech Giants Bet Big on India, and Now It’s Changing the Rules (wsj.com)

41 points by r_singh on Dec 26, 2019 | 36 comments

2156.

Crew: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (2012) [pdf] (tsl.texas.gov)

41 points by Tomte on Dec 1, 2019 | 29 comments

2157.

Brazil fines Facebook $1.6M for improper sharing of user data (reuters.com)

41 points by hhs on Dec 30, 2019 | 26 comments

2158.

The Space Force is officially the sixth U.S. military branch (airforcetimes.com)

41 points by theklub on Dec 21, 2019 | 25 comments

2159.

PyFileFixity: Helping long term storage of data via redundant ECCs (pypi.org)

41 points by Tomte on Dec 8, 2019 | 19 comments

2160.

‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After Bolsonaro’s First Year (nytimes.com)

41 points by vo2maxer on Dec 5, 2019 | 12 comments